Why design collectables to be easy to spot when you can make them blend into the environment so much that players have to use a "Detective Vision" constantly? /s
I remember playing DAO on Nightmare difficulty and running out of potions in the final level, then suddenly “Enchantments!” inside the castle. I almost cried of joy seeing his face
Emotional torment started with the 2 game , the 3 just destroyed it what will the 4 do? You know story of the 1 combat of 2 and RPG elements of 3 combined maybe game of the decade Skyrim and The Witcher 3 had there run lol
I KNOW! Long overdue but I don't entirely blame them, Bioware kind of killed hype for the series with the 'meh' Andromeda and the atrocious Anthem. We need 4 to come out asap.
We cant get world peace bcuz of corrupt Politicians and Elites in the way with the media supporting them so we might as well get Dragon Age Honest trailer.
With regards to your outro, technically you can romance a *future* dragon depending on your decisions for Morrigan. I think that counts as being able to do a dragon in Dragon Age.
@@krzysztofszuba1875 just uptading the game to a new better engine I suppose. Improving the combat would be great but I wouldn't want them to give DAO the dai battle system. DAO was the only one of the three were I actually enjoyed the combat
@LozzimusPrime They didn't make a 10th anniversary version... but *I* did... sort of... LOL. I have a heavily modded PT on my channel. Tried to imagine it as an anniversary remake of sorts... 😅
In preperation for ME4 (whenever that graces us) they did the trilogy collection for current-gen systems so we should see a collection for Dragon Age in the near future. Keep your chin up
@@Typhoon_Lex They could possibly do DAO/DAA and DA2 as they were all on the same engine (and were all released pretty much together (2009 DAO, 2010 DAA, and 2011 DA2). However, DAI is Frosty. Likely there won't be a full trilogy remaster (maybe well after DA4's release they could do something to polish DAI, but who knows)? I'd be real happy to get DAO and DA2 upgraded for now! Give me an HD 4K res remake of Alistair and I'd be in heaven... LOL!! 😍 😂 Also, I am happy with my modded PT... My editing was a bit choppy in the beginning as I was learning... and I had no mic at that time to do any VA for my OC (I did remedy that in my modded DAA PT though). I used mods to fix bugs in quests, added a lot more to the romance, and I personally redesigned a lot of the NPCs in the DAO Toolkit (that was actually a lot of fun)! Certain NPCs I only did minor tweaks to, b/c of the pre-rendered cut-scenes, but all in all, I had a great time on it. I hope others will enjoy it too. 😊
My only personality trait is that I speak in a deadpan tone and rarely express emotion unless I am frustrated. Because apparently a Sten is supposed to fill that stoic character niche.
Dragon Age Origins is one the best and most unique RPGs I have ever played. Absolutely amazing game. I highly recommend it. Oh, Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition are cool too.
Origins: buggy but great. D2: the mc is the town, which is interesting, I enjoyed it. DAI: buggy on release, Bioware dropped support 6 months after release, never ordered another Bioware after that.
@@sw00per94 I played on ps3... when it came out it would crash a lot. It got better with time. The game was a blast, but Bioware took a while to figure out the ps3. (ME2 had glitches on ps3 initially as well)
@@deharca88 Maybe. Anyway, I've been asking them for ages to do not just Dragon Age, but also the Saints Row series and Hyperdimension Neptunia. So there's still two others left unfinished for me.
Honesty ot started happening a bit before he started his playthrough, youtube started recomending a bunch of DAO clips and i think that might have gottent the bal rolling
Also Fenris and Isabela (though that's more "friends with benefits" if I remember correctly). And of course Isabela ships various pairings in her "friend-fiction".
@@beep3242 they don't get together but they do exchange gifts, (Blackwall gets Josie flowers on the regular). No hard feelings are felt when they don't end up together. Sara and Dagna are the only folks I think you don't have to trigger dialogue for to get them together but I may be mistaken. However they are blink and you'll miss it getting together. Both BD and JB require dialogue to trigger any flirtations between the respective couples. Unfortunately by the nature of how recruitment works in DAI, none of the couples are true endgame canon since all but one of these characters are romanceable by the Inquisitor themself and all of them except Josie can not be recruited or can leave the Inquisition. (Sorry if there are any typos. My touchscreen is old!)
By minimizing the customization of the main character and giving up the silent protagonist they really opened up room to make the core cast and events relate better to the protagonist. Worked a lot better on the smaller location and longer time scale.
@@7Kibz Yes, and I didn't know that your character personality seems to develop a bit in 2- watched my dad play it with a nicer, less sarcastic Hawke and his lines were more formal sounding and reserved. My Hawke sounded crude and like she wants to go cause mischief with Varric.
Origin was the BEST RPG game I played so far. The Storytelling was great and funny. I looked for everything and read everything. Damn.... Best 100h of my live
And do you know what also was amazing about it? You could finish it in literally every group-combination. Ever fought the Archdemon with Warden-Warrior, Loghain, Dog and Shale? Very fun!
Wait, people actually think DA:O combat was bad? It's the best out of 3! The amount of automated commands you could give to the companions was insane. I've never seen any other game that allowed that many permutations of auto moves for a party. It was a tactical masterpiece that they lobotomised almost completely in the next two games.
I agree with this; I found combat in DA:O much more fun and engaging than in any of the later games. I'd love to see a return to tactical combat in DA4.
@@AudraBurgess I think the problem is that people don't realise Dragon Age is NOT an action RPG. It's a tactical RPG. It should be played like it's almost turn based. Pause, give commands, start, watch them unfold, pause, give commands again. Mass Effect is just as good of an RPG but it's an action RPG and I love it as well. But that's not DA. I think it's unfair to judge it based on the fluidness of motion and I think Bioware made a mistake changing it in the next installments.
"With a ton of lore that will be ignored by 90% of players." Except for those of us who obsess over the lor continuously and meticulously analyse every single bit of lore or codex and come up with tons of theories that contradict other theories. Hi, I'm DarthShadie Lavellan, and I'm a Dragon Age-aholic.
In Bioware's much older RPG, Baldur's Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal, one of the bosses was a half-dragon and one of your party members did comment on how their parents could have done the deed. So never say never about the dragon romance.
I thought I remember reading in the monster manual that Half-Dragons were made via magic and it’s the dragon born that are a mix of dragon and humanoid. But that is 5E lore.
I actually like the combat in Origins the best. It feels less arcade-y and more tactical. Your attacks actually feel like they land, and I love the magic in Origins the best by far. By the end, I really felt like my mage warden was a true master mage, and that made the RP part of the game even better.
I loved how many different spells there were in DAO, in DA2 on the other hand mage combat was more dynamic and felt badass, in DAI playing mage feels like a chore lol
Nah origins had weak combat. And playing a mage was the most broken thing ever, like why make a game with limited consumables when your mage presses one button and your party is healed.
I like the ending where he's like I better be able to romance a dragon in the fourth instalment. Made me think of Donkey from the movie Shrek getting busy with the dragon
@@anonymousvids2146 I was mistaken, once I thought about it more. 1) If you sleep with Morrigan in Origins, she has the child, and doesn't get the dragon ability - you end up taming an existing guardian dragon in Inquisition. 2) If you don't sleep with her, then she is later given the knowledge to become a dragon. So you can't sleep with a future dragon, because if you sleep with her she doesn't become a future dragon
@@tuxedotservo I romanced Morrigan and had the child, and she turned into a dragon in Inquisition. You just have to have her drink from the Well of Sorrows in Inquisition. That's how she gains the knowledge to turn into a dragon.
How you gonna do Yuri Lowenthal like that? Dude became Peter Parker! Enchantment? Enchantment! (Also, I totally found that kid charming, and the payoff at the end was bonkers good.)
No we wouldn't. Your idea of world peace is not the same as mine, so in order for my version of world peace to come into existence, I would have to assimilate you to my way of thinking or destroy you and those who think like you entirely. "World Peace" is a fairytale concept, nothing more.
Thank you for making this. The series deserves a lot of praise and, perhaps more importantly, a lot of consideration for all aspects of what may appeal to some and what is frustrating. I liked the comment about the difficulty, described it perfectly.
Dragon age origins combat system shines when you play it on nightmare difficulty.. the use of their deep group tactics system and the pacing of the fights is incredible if you want a challenge! Favorite single player game of all time by far
say: "To finally get the Dragon Age Honest Trailer, I needed to bind my soul to a terrifying demon whose sole goal is the downfall of the world - totally worth it."
@@yuyuyu25 Yea, because DAO was a proper tactical RPG like Baldur's Gate before it. Everything after DAO sucks. DA2 was just terrible button mash combat and DA3 was only slightly better.
Last time I started up DA2- "It can't be as bad as I remember" Played a rogue. Was literally stabbing someone with my dagger (obviously within stabbing range), but the dagger ability was out of range. Had to stop attacking so I can move closer to attack... wuuut the.. -Quit playing DA2
Now someone at BioWare is gonna see this and demand a rework of DA:4 to include bangable dragons. That’s gonna be my theory for why the game is taking so long from now on.
To this day, I don’t see why theirs so much hate for DA 2. The story was decent, the characters are interesting and the combat was solid. If nothing else, Merrill will forever be the love of my life.
I think people wer expecting it to be a direct followup to DAO because of its name. It changes things up, and people were disappointed (+ the budget problems show through in the limited maps). Coming back to it now, though, it holds up well, even if I'm not particularly prone to playing it again due to its linear nature and ability to miss important things permanently.
@@beep3242 Fair enough. I can definitely understand the disinterest in the somewhat straightforward story. Personally, I will always hate that I could never save Hawks mother, no matter what you do. And that goes double for not being able to save the mages or sway the Templars.
DA 2 was charming and the character development was beautiful. I just really wish they would have invested more to make it similar to the template of the first game.
Dragon Age 2's combat is considered the LEAST annoying?! That sounds like another disincentive for me to play Inquisition. (The endless battles with street thugs, spiders and undead who randomly spawn such that position-based tactics are pointless are probably my least favourite thing about DA2.)
If you had a controller, the gameplay in 2 could be fun (maybe not button mashing as a warrior). 3 was kind of on autopilot gameplay-wise, but the enemies were visible in the world, not 🎵 It's raining men, hallelujah! Like 2 lol. I didn't like 1. Not being able to dodge and the like was too dull for me :)
DAI is a fun play! The combat is fun but I have only played as a mage so far. The issue is that it has such large areas to explore and companion dialogue is only triggered once every fifteen minutes and cannot be triggered while on a horse. My main issue with DAI has never been the combat but how much content is locked due to real world time having to pass. And as someone who has 20 pre-planned Inquisitors and is a wannabe fanfic writer getting that dialogue to trigger is straight up painful unless you use mods and even then it's a nightmare. On an easy or normal difficulty all of the combat is more than doable even for someone like me who sucks at games and honestly easy even if you play as a mage or even have a whole mage party. I t's worth trying out on a friends PC or console. I played it on PC so I can't vouch for how console players feel but I have heard the abilities wheel/selector is not the most user friendly, so PC seems to be the best way to go. It also came out ages ago so if you have a decent computer from like after 2015, it'll play pretty well. It's definitely worth playing but it is toned down in a lot of ways in comparison to DAO and DA2 when it comes to how heavy the plotline is until you hit the epilogue DLCs which amp up the story and the stakes by 50000%.
Exactly! SimCity was one of the best selling, best loved franchises ever, and it was all undone by the abomination a few years ago. They could have fun with that. More than playing the most recent version, anyway.
Only thing I hated about Inquisition was the lack of healing spells and health regeneration forcing you to rely on a finite inventory of healing potions as well as spam the barrier spell and guard generating abilities/equipment in order to protect your super squishy health bar.
Actually, one of the best things DAI has introduced RP-wise by far. Not only allows more flexibility by not pigeonholing a "healing mage" into the group (especially one you despise as a person), but adds a layer of immersion, which could be enhanced further by turning one the trial making normal hp potions useless. Healing magic in general is fine, but only if it takes time and, by extension, a potion that enhance natural regeneration of the body is sensical too. ...unless you like to immerse yourself in a comedy of chopping off an arm only for a single spell to grow it back up in under a second, of course.
Y'all remember Dragon Age Origins for Morrigan's cleavage or Alistairs charme or maybe even your own player character in their undies. But I remember it for Jeronimo: The absolutely goodest of boys! A dog so great, that he made me, a devoted cat person, put my prejudice towards dogs aside and appreciate him for all his glory.
At last! We did it guys. Now that Dragon age has gotten the honest treatment I can finally open my tomb be laid to rest. Now do an honest trailer for Diddy Kong Racing!
OMG yes, that major plot pot produces Kieran and every one of my Inquisition plays includes Kieran. Like, he carries Urthemiel for 10 years before Flemeth takes the essence form him. And like, he might be 20 in DA4.
It was one of those moments that shape you as a gamer and stay with you forever. I was looking for Andraste's Ashes and blew the horn I found, because why wouldn't I? I got the answer in a moment, as well as realization that dragons are the name of the game, literally.
In honor of finally doing the HGT for the Dragon Age series, please say "We stand upon the precipice of change. The world fears the inevitable plummet into the abyss. Watch for that moment... and when it comes, do not hesitate to leap. It is only when you fall that you learn whether you can fly."
Lol at the OCD part, which is made painful in Dragon Age Inquisition since materials respawn on the map. Triggering OCD in the Hissing Wastes was the real challenge in the game.
They actually nailed that part about constantly mashing the detection button every time you move around in DA Inquisition. 🤣🤣
I don't need more elfroot, but, like, I do need more elfroot.
I do it all the time 00
Why design collectables to be easy to spot when you can make them blend into the environment so much that players have to use a "Detective Vision" constantly? /s
That's not the only thing they nailed with this video...
bro please. send me a gaming pc so i can play it.
I remember playing DAO on Nightmare difficulty and running out of potions in the final level, then suddenly “Enchantments!” inside the castle. I almost cried of joy seeing his face
Who still uses potions that late into the game? Unless you did solo of course.
W. Sandal is the true Hero of Fereldon.
Omg yes I was never so happy to see him.
As a huge fan of the series. This is painfully accurate. The emotional torment that is the development of the 4th installment.
Emotional torment started with the 2 game , the 3 just destroyed it what will the 4 do? You know story of the 1 combat of 2 and RPG elements of 3 combined maybe game of the decade Skyrim and The Witcher 3 had there run lol
Given how bioware has lost all of it's talent, it's probably their last big release.
i restarted inquisition like 6 times i just cant seem to get thro it
I disagree… I think 1 actually had some of the best combat. It was just more tactical and set up for pc.
The emotional torment is particularly bad if you romanced Solas.
AFTER 5 YEARS! THEY FINALLY DID A HONEST TRAILER FOR DRAGON AGE LETS GO!
Now if we could only get Spaceballs The Honest Trailer
I KNOW! Long overdue but I don't entirely blame them, Bioware kind of killed hype for the series with the 'meh' Andromeda and the atrocious Anthem. We need 4 to come out asap.
We didn't want world peace, we wanted Dragon Age trailer.
We cant get world peace bcuz of corrupt Politicians and Elites in the way with the media supporting them so we might as well get Dragon Age Honest trailer.
@@theseproblemsmatter1 ugh.
@@theseproblemsmatter1 did you have to?
Enchantment
@@davejay2097 ENCHANTMENT!
Anyone who's played Origins knows the enchantment kid is basically John Wick. He can say enchantment however much he wants.
Sandal is the the best character in Dragon Age. Varric is second.
@@Meat_Tofu The Grand Oak is pretty great as well
"Not enchantment!"
*gestures to huge pile of Darkspawn corpses and flash-frozen Ogre*
He's gotta be the final boss of dragon age. He was unbeatable
@@KeithFraser82 boom
With regards to your outro, technically you can romance a *future* dragon depending on your decisions for Morrigan. I think that counts as being able to do a dragon in Dragon Age.
And depending on your interpretations of qunari origins, who may be able to romance a half dragon.
But are the dragon's of age?
Give me scales or give me nothing!
*Vigorously ignores the reality that scaleys exist and keeps this pure*
😅
Nah. Either the full package deal or change the series name.
@@Jeren6924 3000 yo sounds like age of consent to me!
I freaking LOVE this series. Shame they never did a 10 year anniversary remaster for Dragon Age Origins, would have been amazing. ENCHANTMENT!
by remaster you mean just enchanced graphics and bug fixes or more like Origins with Inquisition battle mechanics?
@@krzysztofszuba1875 just uptading the game to a new better engine I suppose. Improving the combat would be great but I wouldn't want them to give DAO the dai battle system. DAO was the only one of the three were I actually enjoyed the combat
@LozzimusPrime They didn't make a 10th anniversary version... but *I* did... sort of... LOL. I have a heavily modded PT on my channel. Tried to imagine it as an anniversary remake of sorts... 😅
In preperation for ME4 (whenever that graces us) they did the trilogy collection for current-gen systems so we should see a collection for Dragon Age in the near future. Keep your chin up
@@Typhoon_Lex They could possibly do DAO/DAA and DA2 as they were all on the same engine (and were all released pretty much together (2009 DAO, 2010 DAA, and 2011 DA2). However, DAI is Frosty. Likely there won't be a full trilogy remaster (maybe well after DA4's release they could do something to polish DAI, but who knows)? I'd be real happy to get DAO and DA2 upgraded for now! Give me an HD 4K res remake of Alistair and I'd be in heaven... LOL!! 😍 😂
Also, I am happy with my modded PT... My editing was a bit choppy in the beginning as I was learning... and I had no mic at that time to do any VA for my OC (I did remedy that in my modded DAA PT though). I used mods to fix bugs in quests, added a lot more to the romance, and I personally redesigned a lot of the NPCs in the DAO Toolkit (that was actually a lot of fun)! Certain NPCs I only did minor tweaks to, b/c of the pre-rendered cut-scenes, but all in all, I had a great time on it. I hope others will enjoy it too. 😊
I was told there was an honest trailer for Dragon Age. I've found the honest trailer. The honest trailer is true.
-Sten
I'm annoyed they talked more about the enchantment kid than the Sten.
@@nocandoslurms433 I am Sten of Beresad, vanguard to the Qunari people.
My only personality trait is that I speak in a deadpan tone and rarely express emotion unless I am frustrated.
Because apparently a Sten is supposed to fill that stoic character niche.
Dragon Age Origins is one the best and most unique RPGs I have ever played. Absolutely amazing game. I highly recommend it. Oh, Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition are cool too.
And don't forget to play the DA-O DLC/Extra Storys, especially the one where you play on the dark side.
Origins: buggy but great. D2: the mc is the town, which is interesting, I enjoyed it. DAI: buggy on release, Bioware dropped support 6 months after release, never ordered another Bioware after that.
@ThomB1031 idk what are u playing on, but DAO isn't even a bit buggy for me, I play it on a pc with no mods whatsoever btw
@@ThomB1031 I have dai for ps3. the absolute pain and rage
@@sw00per94 I played on ps3... when it came out it would crash a lot. It got better with time. The game was a blast, but Bioware took a while to figure out the ps3. (ME2 had glitches on ps3 initially as well)
An Honest Trailer for Dragon Age?! They actually did it the absolute madpeople!
Why are they mad for doing this? Seems like a game that would eventually make it in.
@@REYfromTX Because people have been asking them to do it for years and they continued to ignore it, until now.
@@ArawnOfAnnwn my guess is that they were waiting fo a new DA to come out to make a recap trailer
Maker be praised.
@@deharca88 Maybe. Anyway, I've been asking them for ages to do not just Dragon Age, but also the Saints Row series and Hyperdimension Neptunia. So there's still two others left unfinished for me.
Please say “that Dragon Age guy must be really happy right? He fought on until his wish was fulfilled. Now he can rest”
As the guy who did that for the Professor Layton Honest Trailer, I am very happy for that guy
Loving this resurgence of Dragon Age content. Many a True Nerd started it off with his playthrough, and now we have this!
Honesty ot started happening a bit before he started his playthrough, youtube started recomending a bunch of DAO clips and i think that might have gottent the bal rolling
“The characters wont ship themselves”
Don’t dorian and iron bull already have that in hand?
And Sera and Dagna! Best chaos girls!
Also Fenris and Isabela (though that's more "friends with benefits" if I remember correctly). And of course Isabela ships various pairings in her "friend-fiction".
Potentially also Blackwall and Josie, but I don't remember how that turns out
@@beep3242 they don't get together but they do exchange gifts, (Blackwall gets Josie flowers on the regular). No hard feelings are felt when they don't end up together.
Sara and Dagna are the only folks I think you don't have to trigger dialogue for to get them together but I may be mistaken. However they are blink and you'll miss it getting together. Both BD and JB require dialogue to trigger any flirtations between the respective couples.
Unfortunately by the nature of how recruitment works in DAI, none of the couples are true endgame canon since all but one of these characters are romanceable by the Inquisitor themself and all of them except Josie can not be recruited or can leave the Inquisition.
(Sorry if there are any typos. My touchscreen is old!)
It is rewarding to see some of the characters in DA2 get love.
DA2 has the best characters
Varric is love
Varric is life
@@rosesweetcharlotte Nope Origins did.
Nah besides Varric most of them sucked.
For real, they’re the reason it’s my favourite in the series 😭
Dragon Age 2 is super underrated. I loved the story and transition of Hawke going from a homeless refugee to becoming the hero of Kirkwall.
By minimizing the customization of the main character and giving up the silent protagonist they really opened up room to make the core cast and events relate better to the protagonist. Worked a lot better on the smaller location and longer time scale.
@@BonaparteBardithion Yup in terms of personality Hawke had the best out of the 3 games
@@7Kibz Yes, and I didn't know that your character personality seems to develop a bit in 2- watched my dad play it with a nicer, less sarcastic Hawke and his lines were more formal sounding and reserved. My Hawke sounded crude and like she wants to go cause mischief with Varric.
@@EtaryaFae yeah how hawke talks would change depending on which personality you mostly choose
@@7Kibz I know now, but seeing that blew my mind back when it was still new. Love how it really felt like you were shaping them as a character.
"I'm calling you out for your Solas body pillows!" absolutely sent me🤣
Be still my beating heart!
*A dragon age honest trailer?!?!?*
You did it, you finally did it!! :')
The Maker smiles upon us all today.
Wow, this was a long time coming. People have been asking for Dragon Age Honest Trailer for nearly half a decade by now.
"...this was a long time coming."
...nah, nevermind.
Origin was the BEST RPG game I played so far. The Storytelling was great and funny. I looked for everything and read everything. Damn.... Best 100h of my live
Newbee. 900 hours and going.
Enchantment?
100h that's barely 2 playthroughs
And do you know what also was amazing about it? You could finish it in literally every group-combination. Ever fought the Archdemon with Warden-Warrior, Loghain, Dog and Shale? Very fun!
You really dug in deep on that romancing joke. I didn't know you could reference it that many times in five minutes.
Wait, people actually think DA:O combat was bad? It's the best out of 3! The amount of automated commands you could give to the companions was insane. I've never seen any other game that allowed that many permutations of auto moves for a party. It was a tactical masterpiece that they lobotomised almost completely in the next two games.
I agree with this; I found combat in DA:O much more fun and engaging than in any of the later games. I'd love to see a return to tactical combat in DA4.
It feels clunky at first, but once I got the hang of it I had fun
@@AudraBurgess I think the problem is that people don't realise Dragon Age is NOT an action RPG. It's a tactical RPG. It should be played like it's almost turn based. Pause, give commands, start, watch them unfold, pause, give commands again. Mass Effect is just as good of an RPG but it's an action RPG and I love it as well. But that's not DA. I think it's unfair to judge it based on the fluidness of motion and I think Bioware made a mistake changing it in the next installments.
@@hazarozgen6508 Exactly. Took me a while to understand this but when I did, the game was far more rewarding.
Totally agree. I love the tactical aspect of combat.
I wished 4 would go in that direction again
"With a ton of lore that will be ignored by 90% of players." Except for those of us who obsess over the lor continuously and meticulously analyse every single bit of lore or codex and come up with tons of theories that contradict other theories. Hi, I'm DarthShadie Lavellan, and I'm a Dragon Age-aholic.
In Bioware's much older RPG, Baldur's Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal, one of the bosses was a half-dragon and one of your party members did comment on how their parents could have done the deed. So never say never about the dragon romance.
Was it very carefully or with reckless abandon? 🤔😅
Well dragons are magical beasts who (in many fantasy universes) can transform themselve into a humanoid form, so that shouldn't be an issue....
@@TheAzureGhost That's not exciting, that's just banging a human!
I thought I remember reading in the monster manual that Half-Dragons were made via magic and it’s the dragon born that are a mix of dragon and humanoid. But that is 5E lore.
Dragonage is probably my favourite Olympic event. The way the riders can get the dragon to actually dance is quite impressive.
Dragonage?
Dressage?
That's some next level dad-joke garbage my friend. Well done!
Excuse me, but the dancing comes after the dinner and before the riding.
I actually like the combat in Origins the best. It feels less arcade-y and more tactical. Your attacks actually feel like they land, and I love the magic in Origins the best by far. By the end, I really felt like my mage warden was a true master mage, and that made the RP part of the game even better.
Ah yes, a master of the giant elemental vortex.
I loved how many different spells there were in DAO, in DA2 on the other hand mage combat was more dynamic and felt badass, in DAI playing mage feels like a chore lol
Nah origins had weak combat. And playing a mage was the most broken thing ever, like why make a game with limited consumables when your mage presses one button and your party is healed.
@@yammoto148 to be fair it didn't have limited consumables if you made them yourself.
@@ryanblack3686 Even when you consider herbalism there was only so many elfroot you could get a hold of.
An honest trailer for Dragon Age??? Thank the maker!
I like the ending where he's like I better be able to romance a dragon in the fourth instalment. Made me think of Donkey from the movie Shrek getting busy with the dragon
you know, I would really like to see the guys do an Honest Trailer on the "Soul Calibur" series
I know not everyone loved dragon age games but I loved every single one, I wish they would make a new one but looking forward to baldurs gate.
Isn't a new one in the works?
They killed off the most bangable dragon in the series at the end of Inquisition, so that "banging a dragon" idea is kinda out.
'killed off'
Must they be in one place at once? Bodies are such limiting things.
Depends on whether or not you drank from The Well of Sorrows. 😜
Meh, for Flemeth, coming back from certain death is called "Tuesday."
We can have more dragons!
"Elf bottoms".. never has there been a more accurate statement
Please say, “You have a gift. You have power. And with great power, there must also come great responsibility.”
We've done it lads! A dragon age trailer! Now....we need a Divinity Original Sin 2 trailer!
Now wait a minute, Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines has been waiting a lot longer than DOS2!
I agree, let us romance a Dragon! Even if it is a shape shifter like Flemeth.
Yeah, I agree too.
As Trevor Wells points out, you can: Morrigan
She shape shifts into a dragon in Inquisition depending on decisions made throughout the series.
@@tuxedotservo what choices? I NEED THIS!
@@anonymousvids2146 I was mistaken, once I thought about it more.
1) If you sleep with Morrigan in Origins, she has the child, and doesn't get the dragon ability - you end up taming an existing guardian dragon in Inquisition.
2) If you don't sleep with her, then she is later given the knowledge to become a dragon.
So you can't sleep with a future dragon, because if you sleep with her she doesn't become a future dragon
@@tuxedotservo I romanced Morrigan and had the child, and she turned into a dragon in Inquisition. You just have to have her drink from the Well of Sorrows in Inquisition. That's how she gains the knowledge to turn into a dragon.
How you gonna do Yuri Lowenthal like that? Dude became Peter Parker!
Enchantment? Enchantment!
(Also, I totally found that kid charming, and the payoff at the end was bonkers good.)
By golly, they’ve actually done it!
That opening line tho. If we all focused on something productive, we'd have world peace
No we wouldn't. Your idea of world peace is not the same as mine, so in order for my version of world peace to come into existence, I would have to assimilate you to my way of thinking or destroy you and those who think like you entirely.
"World Peace" is a fairytale concept, nothing more.
Thank you for making this. The series deserves a lot of praise and, perhaps more importantly, a lot of consideration for all aspects of what may appeal to some and what is frustrating. I liked the comment about the difficulty, described it perfectly.
Dragon age origins combat system shines when you play it on nightmare difficulty.. the use of their deep group tactics system and the pacing of the fights is incredible if you want a challenge! Favorite single player game of all time by far
only problem with origins was once you play like arcane warrior you cant go play other classes again
Anyone else vocally laugh at that opening line while also dying a little emotionally?
Enchantment
I feel so seen & validated by this trailer. Also viciously attacked by the part about these games being glorified dating sims.
In Dragon Age 4, you use blood magic to open a portal to a Half Life 3 crossover.
least we got Alyx
say: "To finally get the Dragon Age Honest Trailer, I needed to bind my soul to a terrifying demon whose sole goal is the downfall of the world - totally worth it."
"Because no one seems clear anymore on if Dragon Age 4 is ever coming out." Hey man... too soon... *sniffles* it'll always be too soon...
You say DA2 had the "least annoying combat", but if you were playing all 3 on the PC instead, it becomes "most annoying combat".
I didn’t like DA2 combat at all idk why they did that
There was almost nothing good about DA2
@@Underratedcomedi I think it there controls were waaay better on consoles, especially since DAO apparently had awful combat on a controller.
@@yuyuyu25 Yea, because DAO was a proper tactical RPG like Baldur's Gate before it. Everything after DAO sucks. DA2 was just terrible button mash combat and DA3 was only slightly better.
Last time I started up DA2- "It can't be as bad as I remember"
Played a rogue. Was literally stabbing someone with my dagger (obviously within stabbing range), but the dagger ability was out of range. Had to stop attacking so I can move closer to attack... wuuut the..
-Quit playing DA2
The combat system in Origins was awesome.
I agree! Never felt like a true mage more than in DA:O
I mean, Morrigan turns into a dragon towards the end of Inquisition, so technically...
Now someone at BioWare is gonna see this and demand a rework of DA:4 to include bangable dragons. That’s gonna be my theory for why the game is taking so long from now on.
"Playing anything other than a mage a total cakewalk"
The Knight-Enchanter would like to have solo words.
To this day, I don’t see why theirs so much hate for DA 2. The story was decent, the characters are interesting and the combat was solid. If nothing else, Merrill will forever be the love of my life.
I think people wer expecting it to be a direct followup to DAO because of its name. It changes things up, and people were disappointed (+ the budget problems show through in the limited maps). Coming back to it now, though, it holds up well, even if I'm not particularly prone to playing it again due to its linear nature and ability to miss important things permanently.
@@beep3242 Fair enough. I can definitely understand the disinterest in the somewhat straightforward story.
Personally, I will always hate that I could never save Hawks mother, no matter what you do. And that goes double for not being able to save the mages or sway the Templars.
DA 2 was charming and the character development was beautiful. I just really wish they would have invested more to make it similar to the template of the first game.
1:16 MY EYES! MY EYES!! IT BURNS MY FECKING EYES!!! This is PAINFULLY accurate though. Tumblr and the "things" about Solas the Egghead...
So this means every video game has been done if you finally did Dragon Age, right?
Only Prince of Persia remains.
Morrigan can turn into a dragon towards the end of Inquisition... so banging dragons is definitely on the table
Dragon Age 2's combat is considered the LEAST annoying?! That sounds like another disincentive for me to play Inquisition.
(The endless battles with street thugs, spiders and undead who randomly spawn such that position-based tactics are pointless are probably my least favourite thing about DA2.)
Play Inquisition man, there ain't that much random spawns and you can avoid most of them anyway
If you make the highest tier crafted gear enemies melt in DA:I. The combat took longer in DA2 than DA:I.
If you had a controller, the gameplay in 2 could be fun (maybe not button mashing as a warrior).
3 was kind of on autopilot gameplay-wise, but the enemies were visible in the world, not 🎵 It's raining men, hallelujah! Like 2 lol.
I didn't like 1. Not being able to dodge and the like was too dull for me :)
I always used mods for dao and da2 which removed this useless enemies
DAI is a fun play! The combat is fun but I have only played as a mage so far.
The issue is that it has such large areas to explore and companion dialogue is only triggered once every fifteen minutes and cannot be triggered while on a horse. My main issue with DAI has never been the combat but how much content is locked due to real world time having to pass. And as someone who has 20 pre-planned Inquisitors and is a wannabe fanfic writer getting that dialogue to trigger is straight up painful unless you use mods and even then it's a nightmare.
On an easy or normal difficulty all of the combat is more than doable even for someone like me who sucks at games and honestly easy even if you play as a mage or even have a whole mage party. I
t's worth trying out on a friends PC or console. I played it on PC so I can't vouch for how console players feel but I have heard the abilities wheel/selector is not the most user friendly, so PC seems to be the best way to go. It also came out ages ago so if you have a decent computer from like after 2015, it'll play pretty well.
It's definitely worth playing but it is toned down in a lot of ways in comparison to DAO and DA2 when it comes to how heavy the plotline is until you hit the epilogue DLCs which amp up the story and the stakes by 50000%.
"Solas body pillows "
Excuse it's Alistair and Raging bull pillows thank you.😚
I’m back again, and still determined to make this happen:
Do SimCity!
SimCity! SimCity! SimCity!
I'm with Philip.
Any game that ends a franchise deserves a trailer.
Exactly! SimCity was one of the best selling, best loved franchises ever, and it was all undone by the abomination a few years ago. They could have fun with that. More than playing the most recent version, anyway.
You get your world peace when we get Dragon Age 4! - Inquisitor Maguire.
Only thing I hated about Inquisition was the lack of healing spells and health regeneration forcing you to rely on a finite inventory of healing potions as well as spam the barrier spell and guard generating abilities/equipment in order to protect your super squishy health bar.
You've got health regen proximity potions you can equip, as well as a mage whose specialty was healing. It's there, you just gotta access it 👀
Actually, one of the best things DAI has introduced RP-wise by far.
Not only allows more flexibility by not pigeonholing a "healing mage" into the group (especially one you despise as a person), but adds a layer of immersion, which could be enhanced further by turning one the trial making normal hp potions useless.
Healing magic in general is fine, but only if it takes time and, by extension, a potion that enhance natural regeneration of the body is sensical too.
...unless you like to immerse yourself in a comedy of chopping off an arm only for a single spell to grow it back up in under a second, of course.
How dare you assume we all have Solas body pillows. Mine has Leliana on it.
You basically banged a dragon in Origins since Morrigan transforms into a dragon in the third game.
Amazing how I just started another playthrough of Dragon Age and I get recommended this.
What a coincidence, i just started playing it and have already sunk about 25 hours into origins
It's so fun
Now that y’all got Dragon Age out of the way, it’s time to fulfill the prophecy, and do an Honest Trailer for Metal Slug.
It makes me giggle that Skyrim has more dragons in one game than an entire series named Dragon Age
But Dragon Age makes the dragon combat good, whereas Skyrim sucks the joy out of everything. 😵
Y'all remember Dragon Age Origins for Morrigan's cleavage or Alistairs charme or maybe even your own player character in their undies.
But I remember it for Jeronimo: The absolutely goodest of boys! A dog so great, that he made me, a devoted cat person, put my prejudice towards dogs aside and appreciate him for all his glory.
WAIT THEY ACTUALLY DID IT!
THE ABSOLUTE MADFOLK!
Say: "There are no bad ideas, only poor executions"
An Honest Trailer of Dragon Age? Someone pinch me, this can't be real.
I see you finally did an Honest trailer for Dragon Age. Why not make your next honest trailer for Deep Rock Galactic?
Rock and Stone!
Rock and stone!
Rock and stone!
Rock and stone to the bone!
For Karl!
I love Dragon Age so much. So glad it gets an Honest Trailer after all this time *wipes tear*
Finally!! Thanks!
But Dragon Age was way better to play on PC. Origins was a masterpiece
We now need honest trailer for dragon age veilguard
As someone who has made Dragon Age their personality: WOOOOOO! BABY!!! THATS WHATI'VE BEEN WAITING FOR!!!!
I’d watch out what you say about Sandal, Buddy, I’m 99.8% sure he’s an Old God
The fact that I’m playing Dragon age right now makes this so much better
Please say "Baby saves the town, from leather daddies"
DAO, one of my favorite games of all times
Elf bottoms, honestly the best thing. Why you gotta call me out like that man?
At last! We did it guys. Now that Dragon age has gotten the honest treatment I can finally open my tomb be laid to rest.
Now do an honest trailer for Diddy Kong Racing!
This game did not leave my console for about 4 months
Veilguard is coming out this fall!
2022 is off to a good start coz they actually did this!
Solas body pillow? Please.
Merrill body pillow is for the distingushed gentlemen.
If only BioWare (the cowards) would make one ...
@@healsallwounds They did for tali and garrus.
I haven't watched an honest game trailer in like 10 thousand years, this was worth it.
E: aww he still does the 'please says'
Oh my God.....they did it
The absolute madfolk!
DAI may not be the best game but the tempest build on that game is one of the most fun builds i have ever experienced in any game.
The three of them are my favorite games ♥ I'm a huge Dragon Age fan.
Amazing trailer btw, so accurate
OMG yes, that major plot pot produces Kieran and every one of my Inquisition plays includes Kieran. Like, he carries Urthemiel for 10 years before Flemeth takes the essence form him. And like, he might be 20 in DA4.
Lmao, now we'll need to find something else to pester them for
It was one of those moments that shape you as a gamer and stay with you forever. I was looking for Andraste's Ashes and blew the horn I found, because why wouldn't I? I got the answer in a moment, as well as realization that dragons are the name of the game, literally.
Thank you for the DA2 love. Best characters in all three games, speaking as someone who loves Inquisition the most.
In honor of finally doing the HGT for the Dragon Age series, please say "We stand upon the precipice of change. The world fears the inevitable plummet into the abyss. Watch for that moment... and when it comes, do not hesitate to leap. It is only when you fall that you learn whether you can fly."
Crying out of joy and laughter! 😂😂 Finally a HONEST trailer for this long forgotten gem 💕
I don't what I'm most confused by, the fact that they skipped Dragon Age or that I forgot that they did.
Lol at the OCD part, which is made painful in Dragon Age Inquisition since materials respawn on the map. Triggering OCD in the Hissing Wastes was the real challenge in the game.
I got triggered by the glitch (in Inquisition) they never fixed which prevented you from ever completing the seed collection for the garden 💔
perfect! also, for context: the combat systems were pretty great for like 2008, 2011, and 2013. beeeewwwwwwbs.
Crazy I’m literally in the middle of my yearly play through of the series. Good timing!
You really got me at the end with the title :'D Didn't see that coming.
If you can make an Honest Game Trailer for Dragon Age after being asked for ages, you can do the same for Xenoblade Chronicles
Pretty much! I really want to see it if they ever listen to the people who have asked for many years.